Lindsay Mitchell

In December 2017  123,039 people were on the Jobseeker benefit and 289,788 people were on any main benefit. By December 2021 the respective ...

Many still credit the Labour government with its life-saving approach to Covid in 2020. But from the outset it was only ever another form of...

 From Statistics New Zealand , note unemployed numbers at end December 2021: From the Ministry of Social Development  note Jobseeker numbers...

By the end of 2021, the Maori fertility rate had dropped to 1.99 This is a fall from the first Stats NZ recorded rate of 6.28 in 1963 That...

 ... but left too early to experience the unnecessary mayhem that kicked off later in the afternoon. I reported to a friend: The focal point...

Talking to Chris Lynch this morning on Magic Talk, National Leader Chris Luxon was singing the praises of our last Children's Commission...

312 responded face-to-face. Poll-wise margin of error plus or minus 4.6%       - Most aged over 41       - Labour was the most common vote a...

More testimony from those who have actually spent time at the protest site: NewstalkZB Political Editor  Barry Soper:  The trouble is the po...

A high achieving sportsman, knighted no less, trumps politicians in his ability to distil and state his position: In a post made on Faceboo...

While thousands of people, Maori in particular, are protesting at parliament over jobs and businesses lost due to the mandates, Ministers Ca...

Has there ever before been a protest to parliament that was stonewalled by every party? What the heck is going on? Where is the Maori Party ...

From the parliamentary occupation site this morning, a row of caricatures. I guess to the protestors the parties are indistinguishable. Thei...

To be amongst the protestors is both calming and exhilarating. There's a strong sense of trust in one another which has been long denied...

Media reports are insufficient. Since Friday the protest has swollen enormously. I took a walk around all the streets near parliament this m...

Quite early this morning I went down to parliament to look for myself and get a feel for the mood. Yesterday the police spent hours pushing ...

In the clamour against Labour's proposed unemployment insurance scheme something odd has happened. The detractors are praising the exist...

CYF became Oranga Tamariki in 2017. There has since been a push to reduce Maori children in state care (not dissimilar to the push to reduce...

Unemployment is now at 3.2 percent. Wow. Wonderful. Can I think of another word beginning with 'W'? Weird. The percentage of people...

 Not a worrier by nature I note with a degree of objectivity that the human brain is now constantly assaulted by messages designed to make p...

 According to RNZ the PM is a covid close contact and has to isolate. The following sentence made me laugh: In line with Ministry of Healt...